Metabolism/Weight Loss

A well-functioning digestive system is the cornerstone of good health. Find out how the gut works, what makes it vulnerable — and what you can do to keep your own digestive tract in tiptop shape.

Kids have the right idea: They love racing and chasing and seeing just how fast they can go. Here’s why adults should pick up the pace, too.

Hormonal imbalances can lead to a host of serious health problems, including inflammation, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, cancer, dementia and more. Here’s how to get your body back in balance.

Learn how your genes interact with your habits, lifestyle, and surroundings to create a healthy body — or an unhealthy one.

Subsisting on low-calorie foods and skipping meals is no way to lose weight - and no way to live. Instead, we should rid our diets of toxins and inflammatory irritants. As a byproduct of cleaning up our bodies, we'll shed extra pounds.

The ideal diet, the spot-on supplement strategy — can a few simple tests help you carve out the one and only nutritional program that's perfect for you?

Science has rejected fad diets once and for all and is now spreading the good word: Eating plenty of fresh, whole foods is the key to sustainable weight loss – and to feeling great.

If your weight-loss efforts seem stalled or stymied, heart-rate-based interval training may provide just the metabolic boost you need.

Healthy eating isn't about eliminating favorite foods from your diet. It's about creating more exciting roles for the foods your body likes best. Discover how to make healthy foods the star of any meal — while keeping your flavor favorites in the wings.

If you want to take off — and keep off — unwanted pounds, a healthy metabolism is your body's best fat-burning friend. Find out which habits can make or break your body's ability to produce energy from would-be pudge.

Office parties. Vending machines. Desktop candy jars. Power lunches. They can spell nutritional disaster for the average working person. Learn how you can sidestep fattening fare and feel better — starting now.

Good health, at core, is less a destination than life-enhancing journey. But if there is any clear path toward the promised land of healthy living, it begins not on any treadmill or diet plan, but on the fertile ground of our own thoughts, assumptions and beliefs.

Detoxing is all the rage these days. But what's the right way to approach it? Here's everything you need to know to lose your toxins without losing your mind.

If you use a hormonal method of birth control, you may gain weight. Then again, you may not. Your doctor can't tell you. In fact, you could be the best expert on this weighty matter.

Feel like you're failing at weight loss? Forever stuck in the remedial class? Don't despair! Here's the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.

Every body is unique, and yet most eating plans promise results for everyone. Sure, you want to eat right, but what's right for you?

Allergy-like food sensitivities may be the blame for at least part of your excess weight. Eliminate your problem foods and you could lose unwanted pounds and inches — fast.

How much do you really know about the magic of your body's inner workings?